Posted this in a (pb), but related:
SPEAKING OF VENEZUELA GOLD
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/01/28/venezuelas-interim-president-asks-bank-england-stop-nicolas/
Saw this a few days ago, Anons, but it didn't seem noteworthy until today.
Maduro has been trying to repatriate gold from London, but the bank has been denying him based on his questionable validity, or something (insert excuse here).
John Bolton, the national security adviser, added: “The authoritarian regime of Chavez and Maduro has allowed the penetration of adversaries, not least Cuba. We think that is a strategic threat to the United States, and there are others – not least Iran.
“It is our mission to make reality what the people of Venezuela want.”
Directives sent on Friday to the US Federal Reserve will make it very hard for Mr Maduro to access Venezuela's overseas assets and earnings, including those from Houston-based Citgo, a subsidiary of state-owned oil giant PDVSA and the major source of revenue for the bankrupt government.
Oil constitutes close to 90 per cent of Venezuelan exports. Some 75 per cent of the country’s cash-generating oil shipments go the US, according to Barclays, but Mr Maduro retains the support of Russia, China, Turkey and Iran and is likely to divert shipments to them.
On that note, here is a graphic I am working on for a dig regarding the Tu-160's that Russia sent to Venezuela. These carry the new Kh-90 hypersonic missile. Look at the intercept times, based on 4,500 mph assumed speed! It may actually be 6,000 mph, I'm still researching it.
Didn't intend to jump the gun, been working on this a few days and still gathering info. But pretty fucking scary. We have installations on Puerto Rico that would detect anything flying nearby, but shit they could launch right from Caracas. And these hypersonics are nuclear-capable.
Now imagine if it is China or Russia who catches it.
Yeah. BOTH countries with hypersonic missiles. I'm sure we probably do too, but I hope to God our ships have actually fielded the lasers, instead of just being in the trial phase.
This is my hope